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Critical Theory

Get Smart! Cultivate Interdependence!

Michael Roth | Posted 01.15.2013 | College
Read More: Community, Max Horkheimer, Michel Foucault, John Dewey, Theodor Adorno, Critical Theory, Pragmatism, College News
Michael Roth

The goal of inquiry isn't Truth with a capital "T;" it is more inquiry. The goal of liberal learning is more learning. We hold onto our "plasticity" by holding onto our ability to be affected by others -- to learn from experience in context.

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Santa, Deconstructed

Derek Nystrom | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Santa Claus, Marxism, Michel Foucault, Irony, Capitalism, Critical Theory, Postmodernism, Politics News
Derek Nystrom

I've recently realized that Santa Claus actually enacts, in miniature, the various stages of our gradual recognition of and acquiescence to contemporary forms of power and authority. No, seriously, he does. Here's how.

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Polytheism And Human Sacrifice In Early Israelite Religion

Valerie Tarico | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Progressive Christianity, Modernist Christiantiy, Thom Stark, The Human Faces of God, Christian Fundamentalism, Critical Theory, Christianity Criticism, Critical Bible Scholarship, Inerrant Bible, Israelite Polytheism, Jewish Monotheism, Biblical Human Sacrifice, Jewish Polytheism, Israelite Religion, Religion News
Valerie Tarico

Surprise of surprises, as Israel aspired to greatness and sought to make a name for itself, surrounded by vast empires, Yahweh got bigger and bigger -- so vastly superior was Yahweh to the gods of other nations.

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Speaking Truth to Power: The Mythology of Imperialism

Rick Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Literature, Academia, Imperialism, Critical Theory, Orientalism, Books News
Rick Ayers

When I decided to teach Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness at Berkeley High School, it had been out of favor as an appropriate text because it was considered too controversial.

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